tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post7987769379680042728..comments2023-08-15T06:33:53.114-07:00Comments on Bison Prepper: monastery economics 2 of 2James M Dakinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-71242651241766444462018-07-01T10:41:47.242-07:002018-07-01T10:41:47.242-07:00Search for the Humanure e-book. It is free. I fo...Search for the Humanure e-book. It is free. I found it wanting, personally. It was a pioneer but surpassed in my personal opinion. Your mileage may vary. Also, something I find myself not doing when I should is hitting the "look inside" at Amazon. It will give you a good sample and should be all you need to decide to buy or not.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-74717307491166054972018-07-01T09:48:34.641-07:002018-07-01T09:48:34.641-07:00anonymous,
could you list the must have books that...anonymous,<br />could you list the must have books that you have sifted from the mass?<br />i have noticed that books written by women are unnecessarily wordy.<br />i like a precis, short and to the point without omitting anything necessary.<br />i have wasted hard to come by money on highly touted books which have not delivered and some heavy to slog through because of too many words.<br />thanks if you can do it.<br />you mention humanure handbook which i have not bought because i want recommendations now before i spend money.<br />i will buy it now. thanks.deb harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05110992898072146282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-61901600665690700462018-07-01T05:36:13.636-07:002018-07-01T05:36:13.636-07:00Oh, I have the other stuff and I carry. Its just t...Oh, I have the other stuff and I carry. Its just that everything eventually wears out or runs out. JuliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-40972222705784755072018-06-30T15:05:53.767-07:002018-06-30T15:05:53.767-07:00You're 82 and your eyes and hands are STILL ho...You're 82 and your eyes and hands are STILL holding out? I'm kidding. Just remember it doesn't matter how great of information you have, if there isn't enough extra calories to feed you. Don't rely on others for that, or protection. You know how I dislike the AR, but at least those of long or short years can use it well. Look at info as your hobby and your Greater Utility, not as a trade good. Then you won't be vulnerable. Old age is only not vulnerable in a tribe, and one not starving at that.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-10699764368052303052018-06-30T12:36:07.883-07:002018-06-30T12:36:07.883-07:00Interesting to me that you chose this topic. I am ...Interesting to me that you chose this topic. I am currently 82 and have a 102 Mother. From genealogy I find that I come from a long living line. so, may "trade goods" will be information. I have notebook after notebook of how-to on a broad range of subjects. If my eyes and hands hold out, I think I will have a valuable bartering tool. Thoughts? JuliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-22344083286960066662018-06-30T08:41:29.182-07:002018-06-30T08:41:29.182-07:00My book shelves are ugly as original sin but were ...My book shelves are ugly as original sin but were $22 per 250 reference books ( I'm sure it would hold more paperbacks ). Now I'm sure it is closer to $30-it takes seven two by fours and some mails and is free standing. They might be ugly but they actual last, unlike the Family Dollar or Wally snap together plastic ones that are dead in a year from the weight and cost the same amount. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-13241816920939187382018-06-30T07:08:02.969-07:002018-06-30T07:08:02.969-07:00Reading material around here tends to take over th...Reading material around here tends to take over the place after awhile and serious weeding occurs. Back in the 80's I built a floor to ceiling book shelf system on a 16' long wall in out dining room and after pulling the books from all the smaller bookshelfs, boxes in closets, stacked on tables and in corners, the shelf was slammed immediately. Around 800 books if memory serves. We started donating books to libraries, and various other places. Around here, now, they have a variety of these things called "Tiny Libraries" which is a small house, about 3'x3' on a wooden post with a glass door on the front. We routinely drop a few books in these things everytime we're near one. I think books procreate at night when we're sleeping. We always have way more than we probably should. <br /><br />My wife has a Kindle that is fully stocked and a tablet that is stocked too. I have over 18,000 ebooks in about 8 different file formats and decoders for all of them. All ebooks are backed up on at least 4 different sources. I've lost stuff in the past and have went to extremes for that to not happen any more but it requires discipline and a plan.<br /><br />90% of my digital media collection was acquired about 15 years ago when we lived in SW Fla and we had true broadband, not the silly satellite we put up with now. I built my own computers and 2 that were top of the line with multiple hard drives and all the right programs to download entire media newsgroups (UseNet). I didn't discriminate on content. All content was burned to DVD discs at nighttime on 100 disc sppols purchased on ebay. When we moved here in the great white north in 2006 I had 40 100disc spools of DVD's that I have burned all my media files to, text, audio, and video. I have over 80,000 mp3's of everything you can think of (music albums, audio books, old radio shows), text ebooks in pdf, txt, etc., 12 different types of video files of movies, tv shows, instructional, etc. If I have access to solar panels and my army of computers hold up I will have useable material til I die. ghostsnipernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-1820210351163522442018-06-30T06:50:00.249-07:002018-06-30T06:50:00.249-07:00Jim, some editing, some indexing. Book production ...Jim, some editing, some indexing. Book production today is big business and has provided a decent living for my wife for more than 30 years now starting with global trade magazines in the 1980's. I read everything and nothing is beneath me nor above me in what I expose myself to except for poor uninteresting content. Like all art, I like some, dislike most and I am a multi-discipline artist myself. <br /><br />Anon, Darrell Bock is one the regular writers whose books I have worked on, maybe 8-10 of them. Just about all of these books travel all over the bible citing references to specific words and terms in an effort to provide true verification. Generally there is a theme involved with this sort of "pick and choose" effort by these writers. It's not unusual for an author to cite 200 or more verses for reference material. Part of my job as the indexer is to gather all these references (more than 8,000 per book) into a separate Verse Index. Generally, these are not books a layperson would sit down and read unless extreme boredom is their thing, but rather they are used as reference material in an effort to assist entry level theology students grasp the magnitude of the whole thing. Now, back in the old daze trying to do the sort of thing regarding indexes we do now would have been impossible due to the volume of the thing. But we use SKY Indexing software (industry standard) that makes it all doable. ghostsnipernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-33612987361137856492018-06-30T06:19:49.219-07:002018-06-30T06:19:49.219-07:00Remember, folks, the rise of books to the masses w...Remember, folks, the rise of books to the masses was in a time of continuous wealth and resource growth. We'll never see the likes of that again ( at least not at scale ). The books you get now will be it. Books are like ammo, a one off from the Oil Age. Don't abuse them or expose them to danger. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-92014662346095421162018-06-29T23:55:57.484-07:002018-06-29T23:55:57.484-07:00Books, quality books, as how to type manuals or fi...Books, quality books, as how to type manuals or fictional get things done type are to be cared for like treasures. They are susceptible to weather and environmental aging-degradation. Minions that are motivated like a monk to their duty as a "caretaker of knowledge" should take steps (now) to preserve and safeguard the quality books. Storage methods for longevity, as well as evacuation planning in event of emergency situations should be considered. In ages past the uber wealthy had extensive libraries to 'self taught' their own families-staff. There was not local public libraries or google. There will again not be any in the next dark age, coming like, really soon. Plan accordingly. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-62760995661766222372018-06-29T17:44:03.147-07:002018-06-29T17:44:03.147-07:00Darn, now THAT'S some minutiae! I'm impre...Darn, now THAT'S some minutiae! I'm impressed.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-51792240376807603572018-06-29T17:39:24.605-07:002018-06-29T17:39:24.605-07:00I think minions can add quite a bit here. For me,...I think minions can add quite a bit here. For me, I'll just say I either read Canticle 20 or 30 years back, or never finished-I can't remember. I did recently buy another copy but it is buried under a lot more I want to read first. It sounds like your paper non-fiction collection is about like mine. I have so much blog material reference books I don't have a huge paper library of more future practical titles. Just a smattering of hopefully most important. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-55208728912612484312018-06-29T17:33:58.754-07:002018-06-29T17:33:58.754-07:00Right, we went from "nobody important gets pu...Right, we went from "nobody important gets published" to "everyone with a crayon gets published". Now, granted, the authors of yore could be a version of Boy Bands, manufacturing a star, but I'd say the majority were above adequate. Now, the majority is far below adequate. Despite its faults, the old gatekeeper system was grossly unfair to authors but more than fair to readers. Now the opposite, and I think we are poorer for it. Even the 'zine system forced you to have skin in the game. Well, money isn't necessarily a good barrier, say in movies, but it worked for dead trees. I could go on and on, bring up Netflix and the newspaper replacements, but I'll stop there.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-22768641910869314282018-06-29T17:27:00.456-07:002018-06-29T17:27:00.456-07:00They monetized everything, even eight thousand yea...They monetized everything, even eight thousand years ago :)James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-60786896636003233502018-06-29T16:22:38.620-07:002018-06-29T16:22:38.620-07:00My definition of organized religion...Mankind, pai...My definition of organized religion...Mankind, painting his butt blue and howling at the Moon. Usually for profit.Spudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00689059709873763146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-84363167794792277712018-06-29T15:48:44.982-07:002018-06-29T15:48:44.982-07:00Good series
I've got a whole pile of e-books....Good series<br /><br />I've got a whole pile of e-books. Far more than I'll ever read. <br /><br />Also had a laugh at your intro "note: free books. Oh how very exciting, another zombie book written as a diary". I almost wish we could go back to the olden days where there was a barrier to entry to keep out the rubbishDingonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-53780343312117533622018-06-29T14:33:57.161-07:002018-06-29T14:33:57.161-07:00James, this article series reminds me of the sci-f...James, this article series reminds me of the sci-fi novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr. <br />The books spans hundreds of years, but starts off in the desert where a monestary is preserving remnants of <br />technology after a long ago nuclear war. Their existence definitely qualifies as austere.<br />I think you mentioned that you had started the book, or read before.<br />It's good speculative fiction, and there is a sequel (have not read): "Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman".<br /><br />I'm curious if regular readers here consider building a wide ranging library one of their top goals. <br />Your readership must consist primarily of non-lemmings who sense the dangerous unsustainability currently passing for normal. <br />Over time, buying new and used, I have put together a collection that may serve me and others in a less convenient future.<br />Some examples: shoe making, blacksmithing, many agricultural titles geared toward small holdings (small scale grain production, nematode control, the Humanure Handbook), fermenting. You get the idea. Gotta split, bit interested in other reader's <br />Ideas, intent, and titles of their libraries. Thanks.<br />S Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-17550387252609645142018-06-29T14:06:24.497-07:002018-06-29T14:06:24.497-07:00ghostsniper...some good comments there. The "...ghostsniper...some good comments there. The "missing" books (14) that you're referring to are called the Apocrypha, which means "that which is hidden." The Catholics still accept the Apocrypha as valid. I disagree with that claim, while acknowledging that books like the Maccabees do have historical truths in them. There have been various councils over time that struggled with which books should be included in the accepted books of the Bible, called the canon. <br /><br />There were various tests applied to a book to determine if it should be included in the Bible. Some of the reasons the Apocrypha was not included:<br />1.The Apocrypha was never included in the Old Testament canon by recognized authorities such as the Pharisees or Ezra the prophet (who was said to have compiled all the Old Testament books written by the 5th century B.C.).<br />2. It was never quoted by the Jews, Jesus, or any other New Testament writer.<br />3. The great Jewish historian Josephus excluded it.<br />4. The well-known Jewish philosopher Philo did not recognize it.<br />5. The early church fathers excluded it.<br />6. The Bible translator Jerome did not accept the books as inspired (although he was forced by the Pope to include them in the Latin Vulgate Bible).<br />7. None of the 14 books claim divine inspiration (some actually deny divine inspiration).<br />8. Some books contain historical and geographical errors.<br />9. Some books teach false doctrine (like praying for the dead-it's too late!).<br />10. No Apocryphal book was found in any list of books during the first four centuries A.D. By comparison, the last book of the Bible was written prior to 70 A.D. It wasn't until the Council of Trent in 1596 that the Catholics recognized the Apocrypha, in an attempt to strengthen their position, which had been seriously weakened by the great reformer Martin Luther.<br /><br />I would disagree that the Bible has been twisted from the original. The original texts were written on clay, stone, papyrus, vellum (skin), and metal. The scribes would faithfully copy the originals, and we have 1000's of the copies, orders of magnitude more than ANY other book from ancient history. The scribes took their work so seriously that when they reached God's name for instance, they would get a new pen, bathe, and change their clothes so they wouldn't be guilty of taking God's name in vain. Various checks were included, for example, compare the letter across manuscripts in page 100, line 10, character 30 (I made those numbers up) to ensure a mistake wasn't made. All three languages of the Bible, Hebrew, Greek, and a little Aramaic, are all still spoken today. You can get reference books, which I have, which have word for word Hebrew/English and Greek/English, along with a dictionary explaining the meaning of every Hebrew and Greek word. That way you can compare how the translation team translated the English word from the original text. Some Bible translations are kind of disappointing though. This is mainly due to the declining education and literacy levels where they try to make the text entertaining, or for a 6th-grade reading level. The message of the Bible is still strong enough though, that even a version written for a child's literacy level can still convey the message. I prefer the New American Standard. It's generally recognized as the most accurate word-for-word translation.<br />Peace outAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-29903381916603015732018-06-29T12:27:16.872-07:002018-06-29T12:27:16.872-07:00"Not a problem. Barely an inconvenience!&quo..."Not a problem. Barely an inconvenience!" This guy is hilarious, satirical take on movie plot holes and such. This one is for the Walking Dead:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPx9sfrvocAJames M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-70322829683908554302018-06-29T12:22:56.590-07:002018-06-29T12:22:56.590-07:00You professionally edit, and you can keep coming b...You professionally edit, and you can keep coming back to read my writing? That doesn't itch your teeth to no end?James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-60271560237883089612018-06-29T12:21:35.339-07:002018-06-29T12:21:35.339-07:00Damn, well-thanks for being a gracious winner! :)Damn, well-thanks for being a gracious winner! :)James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-22134785546691195402018-06-29T10:00:05.321-07:002018-06-29T10:00:05.321-07:00Over the past 8 years I have edited 40+ collegiate...Over the past 8 years I have edited 40+ collegiate level "bible" books and though I don't believe in imaginary super hero's I have always wondered why ALL of the books of the bible are not included in the King James version. Maccabee for instance. <br /><br />Like the whole global warming thing, everything bible has been so twisted, convoluted, and downright frauded over the years It's not really a credible venture any more. <br />ghostsnipernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-61285940505272473142018-06-29T09:06:24.602-07:002018-06-29T09:06:24.602-07:00The majority of my diet is just that. I add potato...The majority of my diet is just that. I add potatoes and onions for variety. Sure, I go out for a hamburger every now and then.<br /> You really don't need to eat your ass on my account thoughWrenchr2https://www.blogger.com/profile/03970779022776650104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-84161849393992293212018-06-29T08:58:38.949-07:002018-06-29T08:58:38.949-07:00That sounds a lot like the original project idea f...That sounds a lot like the original project idea for Encyclopedia Britannica. Meh, not a problem! Barely an inconvenience! James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-62429256766377790402018-06-29T08:56:28.712-07:002018-06-29T08:56:28.712-07:00" Just because there were, and still are, gro..." Just because there were, and still are, groups of hunter/gatherers doesn't mean the first people weren't agriculturalists." Okay, I'll admit you really struck a cord there. It IS possible the current wisdom on the birth of agriculture is completely erroneous. Thank for the brain shrapnel, damn you! :) I just got down chopping down immature sage brush for fire control at my place, and didn't even stop to think to check out the other brush. See what I can do this weekend, if I remember.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.com